...This introductory chapter first sets out the book's three main goals. The first is to increase both the number of juvenile justice systems that are profiled in English-language scholarship and the variety of geographical, political, and religious contexts in which juvenile courts have been observed...

... other justice systems around the world and how adults are treated, juvenile justice systems and the plight of youth who break the law throughout the world is less often studied. This book fills a gap in the study of juvenile justice by providing an unprecedented comparison of criminal justice...